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We consider correlators for the flux of energy and charge in the background of operators with large global U(1) charge in conformal field theory (CFT). It has recently been shown that the corresponding Euclidean correlators generically admit a semiclassical description in terms of the effective field theory (EFT) for a conformal superfluid. We adapt the semiclassical description to Lorentzian observables and compute the leading large charge behavior of the flux correlators in general U(1) symmetric CFTs. We discuss the regime of validity of the large charge EFT for these Lorentzian observables and the subtleties in extending the EFT approach to subleading corrections. We also consider the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in d = 4 − ϵ dimensions, which offers a specific weakly coupled realization of the general setup, where the subleading corrections can be systematically computed without relying on an EFT.
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We are grateful to Nicola Dondi, Bianka Meçaj, Ian Moult, Filippo Nardi, Domenico Orlando, Yuan **n, and Sasha Zhiboedov for valuable discussions. EF and RR are partially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under contract 200020-213104 and through the National Center of Competence in Research SwissMAP. MW is supported by the Royal Society-Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship URF\R1\221905. AM is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2310243.
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Firat, E., Monin, A., Rattazzi, R. et al. Flux correlators and semiclassics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 67 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2024)067
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